LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – In the wake of the death of Breonna Taylor, anti-police sentiments boiled over in 2020. A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation of the Louisville Metro Police Department later revealed a pattern of First Amendment violations during those protests, the result of “deficient policy, training, planning and management.”
The investigation found LMPD gave officers one day of training for protests that contained “…inappropriate content, poor guidance, and improper imagery, which primed officers to escalate police protests and predictably led to officers using aggressive tactics and excessive force.”
But on Monday, June 9, when hundreds protesting ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) marched in Louisville streets, no such escalation was evident…